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The PFDA strongly encourages the participation of the private
sector in the development of the fishing industry. Its facilities
are open to private investors who are permitted to do business
in the Philippines, regardless of nationality. Investments, however,
must directly or indirectly be related to the fishery sector.
Specifically, areas where prospective investors can invest in
and avail of the services and facilities of the PFDA are:
 Fish
Trading
Investors can be fish brokers/consignaciones, fishing boat/vessel
operators, or fish buyers/traders/viajeros.
The regional fish port compexes and the municipal fish ports
have landing facilities that fishing boat/vessel operators can
use to unload their catch. Likewise, market halls are provided
near the landing areas where the fish brokers/consignaciones
and fish buyers/traders/viajeros can transact business and dispose
of the catch of the fishing boat/vessel operators. Traders can
also supply ice at the market halls during trading hours in Navotas
Fish Port Complex.
Fish
Processing
Facilities for processing fishery and other aquatic products
are available in the regional fish port complexes, small-scale
fish processing centers and the General Santos Agro-Processing
Center (GSAPC) beside the General Santos Fish Port Complex. Would-be
investors can lease an area in the refrigeration building of
any of the fish port complexes and convert it into a processing
plant. Raw land is also available in both the complexes and GSAPC
for an investor to lease and build his own plant. The complexes
are equipped with ice plants, cold storages and freezers which
investors can use in processing. Similarly, fishermen's association
or sustenance fishermen can put up their own processing business
by leasing the small-scale fish processing centers of the PFDA.
The Authority provides free training on processing technologies
and on other operational needs of the association or the fishermen.
Fish
Transshipment
Davao and General Santos Fish Port Complexes can be used as transshipment
points of tuna and other fish species. Transshipment agents and
foreign fishing vessel operators are welcome to transact business
in these ports. A one-stop-action-center is operational in Davao
to facilitate documentary requirements.
Operation
of Ice Plants and Cold Storages
PFDA embarks on the construction of small-scale ice plants and
cold storages located in fishing centers all-over the country.
These facilities are leased to private investors who will operate
and maintain them. Raw land is also available for lease in the
regional fish port complexes and the GSAPC on which ice plants
and cold storages can be constructed and operated by private
businessmen.
Auxillary
Investments
Prospective investors in auxiliary industries are also welcome
to invest in the regional fish port complexes and the GSAPC.
Fuel depots, ship repair yards, fishing supplies shops, fishing
net repair shops, and other fishery-related businesses, even
food stalls, can be established in these PFDA investment centers.
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